Sangeet ceremony for Padmini-Shamsher's upcoming marriage - Playing Antakshari
Events of the Episode
20 minutes of Antakshari, the set decoration is visual delight, the actors and characters look lovely. Beautiful moments between Malik and Kundra family, individual dances, the sisters agreeing to matured way of outlook on life going foreward, the jethani-devranis, the Saas and her Bahus as they dance joined by their Samdhis and her sons and the husband and wife's outsmarting each other to express their love/feelings for the other in front of everyone.
The fast, pacy manner is what adds the filmy entertainment quotient to the serial MEIEJ. I just love it. Total filmy style. The MEIEJ team can watch 100's of movies in the name of 100 years of cinema and show us anything related to that by creating a customized fit for the Television soap and it would be still be beautiful. Must say, this concept from Prashant Bhatt ensures a good Fiction programming content for the Colors channer and well supported by Saurabh Tewari for the story development and the rest of the crew of writing team.
20 minutes of Antakshari, the set decoration is visual delight, the actors and characters look lovely. Beautiful moments between Malik and Kundra family, individual dances, the sisters agreeing to matured way of outlook on life going foreward, the jethani-devranis, the Saas and her Bahus as they dance joined by their Samdhis and her sons and the husband and wife's outsmarting each other to express their love/feelings for the other in front of everyone.
The event management - the people, the performances and the venue decoration
A Sangeet function with an anatakshari game where each person plays himself attached to no party/team where persons belonging to the three families are involved, the families of the Kundras, The Maliks and The Bhatias...as introduced by the host Rishabh Kundra. He describes his In-law Mom and Dad's wedding as cute, romantic film with also action, adventure and drama. Now I don't understand why RK added action and adventure, because so far I have seen only romance and drama. Bad Mr.RK to be revealing future plotlines.
Entertaining and visually appealing episode with right vibes except the embarassing silences induced for RK and Madhu's song for Kaate Nahin katthe...which viewers live in absolutely embarassing moments for themselves and as well as for all the others. In other words horrible of the hosts to have ignored all the others, but then redeemed through the filmi husband's filmi drama along with his aide Bittuji with lights focussed on themselves to give a filmi feel and ending in giving a romantic appeal to everyone. Everyone present there would not mind the silences as they watched that performance of their hosts. Weren't they the only two Kundra ?!!! Beautiful. The wife, not so filmy is really embarassed and runs away to her private chambers. That must have made the evening exceptionally romantic.
Almost everyone looked beautiful, including Dips in her deep red lipstick. It reminded me how we used to call her Deeplali (a name coined for her by one of our friends FQ during Dips earlier days of intro with deep red lipsticks). I would not forget even the junior artists. Looked lavish evening with that sparkling floor and the wall adorned with lights and colums adorned in silvery glaze of fabric material with lights and the orange and purple flowers atop giving the vase like feel. I liked the Sangeet venue arrangement. Neat and elegant with lights and minimal flowers. Otherwise, the typical function organizing in daily soaps is seen with lots of flowers especially orchids.
And coming to people dynamics:
RK indulging in RK speak with Roma Paste, RK Paste and Trishna Paste was good, doing the ice-break between chawl-waasis and Mansion waasis...which though Bhatias in the form of Kuku and Dips try to show the difference, RK mingling there in his paste talk, makes it all a talk between relatives. There were confusing moments though. I did not if Madhu was trying to tease RK right at that time or trying to remind him for "Pair Choona". Well IMO RK does not need to be reminded about that. He has those manners. Ms Rads taught him all that, so Madhu you can be lax about it...so lemme forget Madhu's confusing gestures.
Roma was introduced to Radhaji.
Trishna
Madhu- Trishna scene was very good. I had been apprehensive as to how Trishna would react to the Sangeet being arranged in RK Mansion and what kind of feelings it would invoke in her. But strangely the sisters though remembering all that went by, yet agreed to remember just the good things. Seems Trishna's one supreme selfish decision to sign up the film with BSC Productions has made her mature to many other things in her life. She is now ready to see how her family would react to that and yet she just wants to reap the good things out of her one selfish interest...of doing something for her family through her fulfilment of dreams and somehow, being alienated in her mind through her decision, has now made her warm to the idea that how much her family's support means to her, when she is on the verge of losing it. Interesting and poignant feeling there.
Deepali
Madhu -Dipali scene also were good. Madhu does try to be good to her Jethani by lifting her up and boosting her morale when she has a flop show when her husband abruptly takes her to center stage. Didn't get why Dips has to fall...but chodo in the name of entertainment and together the SILs sing and rope in their MIL (saas) for the Radha Song. What I best liked about today's Dips and Madhu scene is...now officially I get Madhu openly taking Dips away from her husband, showing her place away from her husband and then claiming RK again. God!! How I have asked for this since the beginning. CVs thank you for giving me this scene. See now that protects the sanctity of the Madhu-RK marriage and will keep Dips off boundaries.
Sikky, Bittu, Roma, Trishna, Radha dances
I liked all their dances. Roma was making sure RK gets to sit with Madhu by taking Bittuji away. Seemed Bittuji was trying to flirt with Roma and Trishna as well...but poor guy again was working for his boss. And Ms Radha was really good with that dancing. She managed to pull in everybody except Kuku Bhatia, the pissed off guy.
Hilarious moments
I cannot help laughing at the fact that ...of all the people, Bittuji was very happy sitting with his Bhabhiji. He was always going back to Madhu like a family. He did 3 times and the last time, he was pretty upset that RK usurped his place and would have shown his eyes angrily had it not been his Chief, who too showed his eyes...that moment was just too good to miss. Goes to Hall of Fame moments if you ask me. But bad!!! he couldn't help his Bhabhiji and had to help or follow the orders of his chief. And Roma kept on observing this and helped RK get back his place besides his Biwi.
I also liked how Shamsher was asking Roma to stop laughing aloud when she couldn't control herself at Sikky and Dips' fall.
RK continues with his intimidating techniques
I would not make much an ado about RK-Madhu scene in their privy chamber or their small talk in the sangeet function as well. He is just deepening his romancing with his wife taking it to the physical intimacy level. I laughed when he said that he had never taken advantage of her modesty.
But their romance all filled with double meanings is making it all suggestive sexual innuendo very desirable at this stage of relationship between the husband and wife. Suits Colors channel's conservatism (My friend Zoya told me that Colors is conservative and will not allow PH's to show bold scenes for family dramas). Seems the PH of MEIEJ is inspired with Rajshree Productions as well. The Barjatya clan are masters of churning out romance filled family dramas and yet beautifully place the erotic and sensuous feel in between. Do you all remember the erotica of "Maine Pyar Kiya"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4g9zKRe-Is
For me "Mere Rang mein Rangne waali" song made me lot uncomfortable because unfortunately, I was watching it as a "teen" and that too in the movie hall sitting next to Dad. LOL !!! I had dragged the whole family to watch it as it was a family drama and I never expected something like that. Salman and Bhagyashree behave way too much like man and wife before they are even married...and I am sure parents may not have liked all that with their kids watching that kind of thing... See the last part of the song ... Recently at the Colors Screens (or others) awards they made fun of this aspect in the retro movie presentation.
Pictorial Commentary - by Zorica
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